Coyote Advice Sought

[Debbi]

Check out Ebay for "solar powered fence chargers". I bought a Zareba solar powered charger there, new in the box, for about 1/3 of the going retail price. Works like a charm! Also try, www.zareba.com and check out sources there. I'd also remind your sister of the 2nd admendment! Keep this phrase in mind: "When SECONDS count, the cops are only MINUTES away!" Out here, it's like 30-45 minutes away, so I'll protect myself, thank you!

 

[judyc]

www.premier.com has solar chargers out the wah-zoo! They will help you set up a system, too. They are really great as to customer sevice. They have chargers for around your garden that should work for your tractor.

As to the ammo, they do make it with less powder. Cabrio or some such name? You can find it at Wally World.

 

[Jferlisi]

I know im late to the party here, But when we first got our chickens 4 months ago we where having coyote problem in out neighborhood they had taken our neighbors chickens and they had jumped over another persons fence down the street and took there little dog. I live in a very open area. everyone around us has 5 acres or more and we are backed up to hills on 2 dif sides. We had to up to the run and where pacing back and forth. we have 2 outside dogs and they where barking there heads off and that did not scare them away. My father used to hunt and shot one in the hip with his rifle and the other took off down the dirt road. We do not have a fully fenced yard, we only have a small dog area where they dogs are fenced in, and we put them up at night. The guy a crossed the street had caught one a few nights later. You asked what you should do when you kill it. If its later in the day i would hang it for the rest to see and then burry it the next day. since then we have not had a coyote step foot in our yard. As for the baiting the dogs. They are known out here to one go and start playing with a dog and running around with it and taking them into the hills or heavily chaparral areas and the rest of the pack jumps them. I know this is upsetting but we hear this happen to dogs maybe once a month out here. I am sorry for the long story. Hope you get your problem solved before they can steal any of your chickens.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Welcome to the party! Late is better than never. Thank you for your input - more ammunition for me to convince my husband of the severity of the issue. (My husband can't see killing anything. Don't go there - I take care of such things and he takes care of just about everything else).
Fencing - is there any one out there who has some electrice wire around a mobil coop/tractor? Do you have a picture so I can figure out how to instruct DH to do it? Ours is 10'x5'.
Lower powder bullets - Do they still have killing power on coyotes? Closer range or father range?
17HMR - Pretty convinced on that. DH is worried about the carry of the bullet but I am assured that I will be aiming down at a 30 degree angle from my front porch to a target 100-200' away and my nearest neighbor is above that elevation 900-1000' away. Don't understand the need for a scope though - seems a dangerous place to put your eye socket. Next to hard metal that will kick back? Besides the sites should work just fine. I've used sites. With practice I am sure I won't miss a slower moving target that close. Comments and suggestions on all 3?

Thank you for your help

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

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[7L Farm]

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.17 will not kick. A scope will increase your chances to not miss hands down. I own a bunch of rifles & they all have the best scopes you can buy. Usually, the scopes are as costly as the rifle but worth the price you pay trust me. I've been hunting for almost 50 years. I'm sold on the .223 Winchester carbine . I supervise my chickens free range on a golf cart & carry a 16 gauge shotgun & a rifle. If something tries to kill my chickens I'm their roo.LOL

 

[Caincando1]

I'll say the same thing I say on every thread like this. Find a local hunter or trapper and have them come get rid of them for you. Fur prices are up and there are always people looking for game. Even when fur prices are down, hunters are always looking for game. It's a win-win for both.

 

[ParadiseFoundFarm]

Lost 2 Saturday

 

[Stevo]

Ive lost 9 since May to yotes. I have been shooting them but there are way more than I could ever control with my gun. I am about to just face the fact that some are going to be killed by yotes. It does feel good tho to get even once in a while lol. I use my Rem. 22-250. Drops them in thier tracks. My coop is secured at night and they cant get to the chickens. Its a little fort knox. They get them during the day as they freerange the farm. Havent lost one in awhile tho. Either the word got out or I am having an impact on thier numbers.

 

[centrarchid]

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Stevo,

What chicken breed(s) do you have being taken by coyotes? Have you seen the yotes take a bird? I am curious as to how your birds respond to coyotes coming after them. Not all my birds equally susceptible to coyotes.